Authors

Warwick Mansell & Helen Ward
All articles by Warwick Mansell & Helen Ward
Pupils can score 21% and still pass
Fourteen-year-olds need to have answered only one in five questions correctly in a national maths testthis summer to meet the target level for their age
27 June 2008
Neither broad nor balanced
Critics tell Commons select committee that national curriculum has failed to deliver its main goal
13 June 2008
Testing puts a brake on pupil happiness
21 March 2008
Soft A-levels? Now that’s a hard one
22 February 2008
A world where average just isn’t good enough
7 December 2007
‘Don’t cram, teach’
10 August 2007